The Master clan was back in town yesterday to do a little family-brand wine pimping at Sketch. And guess who was there to taste the offerings? That’s right, yours truly. And while I generally avoid things like opening-night parties, wine tastings, benefit dinners and “celebrity chef” parties like the plagues that…
Back in December, Robert Thompson (formerly of Brasserie Rouge, the Atomic Cowboy and B-52 Billiards) announced that his Chicago company, Seasoned Development, would open its first Noca Kitchen at 1433 17th Street in Denver. “Noca Kitchen is going to be a substantial growth vehicle for us in Denver, as well…
The Colorado Bartenders Guild (COBG) hosted its first-ever cocktail contest on Sunday night at Trios Entoneca, and Mark Stoddard (above), of Boulder’s Bitter Bar, took first place with his “Swedish Fish” — a tasty blend of Absolut, Orgeat Syrup, Maraschino Cherry liquid Regan’s Orange Bitter’s, orange wedges and mint. The…
To celebrate Colorado Architecture Month, the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects has paired up with local chefs for the Delicious Design program, creating desserts inspired by specific buildings in Colorado. Thursday’s dessert was from Steuben’s, Friday’s featured design from Carelli’s in Boulder, and today? Root Down, located…
As we reported in March, New Belgium Brewing has rolled out its second canned beer – Sunshine Wheat — in Colorado only (the trucks hit the road on Friday on their way to liquor stores). But if sales are strong – as they were when the Fort Collins brewery introduced…
Casselman’s Bar & Venue opened this past weekend at 2620 Walnut Street, in the space where Shakespeare’s Pub, once an institution in the Platte Valley, lasted less than a year. Maybe that’s why owner Matt Casselman wants to refer to the neighborhood as “NoDo.” But he could soon rake in…
Mizuna, Frank Bonanno’s restaurant at 225 East Seventh Avenue, will host its monthly wine dinner tonight. The five-course meal is $100; for reservations, call 303-832-4778. But save some space — and cash — because this Thursday, April 30, is the annual Dining Out for Life, and over 300 area restaurants…
It probably won’t surprise you to learn that I haven’t been on a lot of dates. Thus far, my personal history of socio-sexual relations has been divided into two very distinct categories. Depending on the year, the place and my condition, I have either gotten by as some kind of…
While Charlie Master is now ensconced at Sketch, his former restaurant, Brix, is slowly settling into history. Although the original Brix space at 3000 East Fillmore Street is again empty (Barron’s died within weeks), the second Brix location, downtown at 2200 Market Street, should reopen on Friday, May 1, as…
Three Boulder Farmers’ Markets so far, and I’ve seen the sun only one time more than I’ve seen Rush Limbaugh. The first was sunny, the second snowy (and cancelled), and this past Saturday’s? Drizzly. It was still pleasant, though, sort of a natural version of a supermarket’s attempt at playing…
Bad times make for good deals, as restaurants and bars try to woo customers with great happy-hour deals. For example, at Emilio’s Super Chef, 338 East Colfax Avenue, you can get a “Fiesta Bucket” with five full-size Mexican beers for just $10 bucks from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through…
If winter is the new summer when it comes to firing up the backyard grill (as I reported last December), then the big snowfalls of the past few weeks mean spring must be the new winter – which is fine, since winter is summer anyway. I think. And summer begins…
Frosted Mini-Wheats Little Bites Chocolate Kellogg’s Rating: A half-spoon out of four Cereal description: Whole grain wheat welded into a wiry-looking brown square diode, with one side flocked with white sugary spew and the other more or less naked to the world.They’re hard and heavy, although not hard and heavy…
Club Roxy, housed in the building at 2549 Welton Street that was once the down’s first black movie theater, turned into Pure late last year. Now it’s definitely having some impure thoughts, judging from a recent ad on Craigslist for “GOGO Dancers/ Coaktail Staff,” which announces: “We are currently looking…
Mel Master, the man who brought us Mel’s (in all its incarnations) as well as numerous other notable local restaurants, returns to Denver for the first monthly wine-tasting at Sketch, 101 Broadway, where his son, Charlie, runs the bar. Mel, who’s also a winemaker, will be pouring his Tortoise Creek…
When Jason Sheehan bemoaned the loss of Nosh last month, I shared in his solemnity. Not only was the gelato parlor in my ‘hood, but it was damn good gelato, and the spot’s lovely courtyard gardens, bedecked with wrought-iron benches and chairs and a trellised gazebo, were a communal pit…
What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society…Cafe Star has reopened as a second Trattoria Stella, while Park Burger is still on the back burner and a new Santoro’s is on the way.As if you need another excuse to buy that burrito bowl you love so much–drop into…
This week is all about eating on the cheap. First, I wrote about the Columbine Steak House and its ten-dollar steaks. Then Cowbobas, with its equally inexpensive beef (and corn dogs and boba tea and grilled cheese sandwiches). And finally, Andrew Schutt’s awesome Tin Star Cafe barbecue-and-donut restaurant–a place that’s…
There was much lamenting last month when owners Tom and Marna Sumners announced that they would be closing Cafe Star, at 3201 East Colfax Avenue, a restaurant I loved back in the days when Rebecca Weitzman was running the kitchen. But that was a long time ago, and Cafe Star…
Santoro’s Brick Oven Pizzeria, our Best French Fries–Boardwalk winner in 2004, is opening another location. It’s at Broadway and Mineral, in the Safeway shopping center — and about ten miles from Santoro’s current spot at 9500 Heritage Hills Circle in Littleton. I grew up near the original Santoro’s, and know…
Kelley Coffman-Lee, the vegan Centennial mom who made national headlines this month when she announced that the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles had rejected her attempts to buy a vanity license plate announcing ILVTOFU, is already a punchline. On April 18, the “Not My Job” segment of National Public Radio’s…
“Sour gummy” is usually a good place for a candy to start. But when it’s followed by “popcorn,” that presents a bit of a problem. It gets slightly better with the promise that the gummies are fruit-flavored…then slightly worse with the warning that one of the fruit flavors is, in…
